Author Archives: ben

I don’t do too much with Ubuntu. What little I’ve seen, I like, but I just haven’t had time to try to do much. I do run one virtual machine, that I use as a web/mysql server for my development/test … Continue reading →

This post is less technical/nerdy, but I just wanted to provide a general endorsement of something that I see becoming more and more common. Specifically, I’ve been dealing with complex systems, and along with the normal bevy of settings, there … Continue reading →

I recently added a copy function to one of the web applications that I’ve developed. In addition to letting the user copy records to a new set of records in the same system, I decided to also allow them to … Continue reading →

Last year, I had an assignment to create some reports using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). The database team at this company had created a reporting database, using data cubes, with information rolled up from a number of production systems. … Continue reading →

All php developers have been there. You’ve got the page working just like it should. And with one exception, it looks good too. That exception: All of your status and debut messages. You hate to get rid of it. It’s … Continue reading →

I’ve been coding in php for seven years, and doing it professionally for four. Until today, I never knew you could use a syntax like this to set the value of more than one variable.

I’m not sure why … Continue reading →

I ran into an interesting need when updating some code for MyQuizWiz, an online quiz and survey system that I developed. There’s a need to display content generated by the system in users’ Facebook fan pages.. Specifically, there is a … Continue reading →